Wichita KS

North Wichita restaurant closes after ICE officers patrol parking lot during business hours. The restaurant parking lot is where a bus stops on a route from Durango, Mexico all the way to Omaha, Nebraska and back. The restaurant’s owners said many customers and community members utilize the bus that stops through twice

Welcome to the heat dome! High pressure is building overhead and bringing warmer temperatures and sunnier skies. Temperatures will be hot for the next several days. We start the week in the low 90s but eventually climb to the upper 90s by next weekend. The bubble of high pressure will...

Land that sparked concern from Haysville residents over possible rezoning is in the early stages of welcoming a gas station, according to the applicant. About 70 Haysville properties were mailed a letter in June about a requested rezoning from light commercial to heavy commercial at the northwest corner of 79th and Bro

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A crash reported a little after 8 a.m. near East 21st Street North and Webb Road, in northeast Wichita, sent two people to a local hospital, one severely hurt and in critical condition. Police said a 20-year-old woman who was driving a Ford Focus involved in...

HARPER COUNTY – The Anthony Police Department reported to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) that Laura Thomison, 75, of Wichita, was located and is safe. The Statewide Silver Alert is now canceled. Thanks for your assistance during the alert. ------------- HARPER COUNTY —The Anthony Police Department requested t

There are a couple of pieces of good dining news at the Waterfront and Waterfront Plaza. First, the long-awaited Bella Luna now has an opening target: mid-September. That’s later than planned, which, of course, is par for the course for restaurant openings. In October, Have You Heard? reported that the longtime Wichita

I’ve been writing about restaurants in Wichita since October 2000. That’s 26 years ago, which is hard for me to believe. In the early days, before menus were easy to find online, I used to pick them up wherever I went to help me with my reporting. I’ve had a big stack of them sitting in a folder (paper, not digital) fo

About 90 miles south of Wichita sits a massive ranch that has listed for $32.5 million. It’s known as Red Rock Ranch — “arguably the Midwest’s most extraordinary ranch,” according to Hall and Hall listing agents John Wildin and Brett Grier. It’s so extraordinary that...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Following a massive fish kill in west Wichita on Friday, the neighborhood HOA is speaking out on what they’re doing to cleanup the mess. On Sunday, thousands of dead fish are still floating in a pond in the Chadsworth neighborhood near 21st and Maize. The fish are decaying, with maggots feeding o

SEDGWCK COUNTY —A Kansas man is now a convicted felons after pleading guilty in a case involving posting threats on social media to murder federal officials. According to court documents, Joaquin Hernandez, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate communications with a threat to injure. In January 2026,...